Word: jinnah
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...moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab's nonLeague Moslem Premier Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana. But the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of 400 million Indians depended at this climax of 200 years of British rule, was the short, thickset, smiling, one-eyed, taciturn...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
...days Simla seethed with secrecy, bubbled Math optimism. Then the conference suddenly stalled. In this political pinch, Lord Wavell was patient. At issue was the question: should the Moslem League have sole right to nominate the Moslem ministers in India's projected new government? Mohamed Ali Jinnah said yes. The delegates of the All-India Congress, which also includes Moslem members, claimed the right to nominate at least one Moslem minister. The factions agreed to adjourn until July 14, so that their working committees could try to work out some compromise...
Permanent Minority? But Mohamed Ali Jinnah was uncompromising. At press interviews after the adjournment, he disapproved the Wavell Plan's proposal for parity between caste Hindus and Moslems in the new government. He charged that the Untouchables and Sikhs would always vote with the Hindus, thus putting the Moslems in a permanent minority. Said Jinnah: "We cannot accept the Congress party's right to choose the Moslem ministers either on principle or on the facts before us." (The Moslem League claims to represent 99% of India's Moslems). But he left the door to reconciliation open...
Almost as cantankerous as Mohamed Ali Jinnah was Mohandas K. Gandhi. When he reached Simla, Gandhi was exhausted. Huge crowds had surrounded his third-class railway coach at almost every stop from Bombay. Then he was closeted for nearly two hours with Lord Wavell...